I Run To You

Part 2 – When lies become the truth

-I shouldn't be doing this - Alexa thinks, as she knocks on the door to Adam's hotel room.

He doesn't come to the door right away, so she almost turns to retreat down the hall. She isn't fast enough however, and as she turns away, the door opens.

"What do you want?" the intimidating Canadian asks gruffly.

"Oh, um…I just…" she hates that he scares her into stuttering, but that doesn't stop it from happening. Alexa forces herself to speak clearly, she states calmly, "I just wanted to ask you a question about last night."

Adam looks at her curiously before motioning her inside of his room. Looking around for her friend Callie, she is greatly disappointed when she doesn't find her there. It's so much easier to talk to Adam when Callie is there for even out his harsh, blunt, and crass demeanor.

"What about last night?" he asks her, studying her face carefully, looking for a sign of what she is questioning him about.

She returns his curiosity, wondering how he could possible not know what she is talking about. Now, however, he is looking at her suspiciously, so he must know why she's here. Why isn't he just explaining himself already?

"I thought you would know why I am here," she says, instead of just asking him.

An array of emotions cross his face momentarily, but he isn't one to show feelings so easily. She can tell that he is angry, confused, and even sad. This must be even more of a serious issue than she thought.

"I might, but I'd rather you ask me," Adam replies, all of the previous emotions gone and showing a blank face once again. "So I'll ask again, what do you want to know about last night?"

-Ah, that makes sense-she thinks. –That's so like him, make me ask the question so that he doesn't tell me any more than I want to know.-

"I saw Jay and I know that you're the one that did that to him," she answers, trying not to focus on the fact that just thinking about him brings back her depression from last night. "My question is, why?"

"You don't to know the answer to that," he says smoothly, but his calm façade is broken, he loses his blank face once more, and all she sees in him is pure rage.

Her eyes widen with the extent of his anger and she can't help but ask, "What could Jay possibly have done to make you so upset?"

"Oh you really wanna know?" the beast in Adam is released and there would be no stopping him now, even if she wanted to. "Huh, Alexa? You wanna know what your precious ex-boyfriend did? I'll tell you what he did because it's your fault he did it in the first place. You and your stupidity-breaking up with the only guy who could freaking appreciate your brand of elite, feminist insanity; the only guy who treats you like a princess, even though you've stomped on his heart how many times now? Like…ten. You did this! You turned him into this weird stalker/rapist hybrid! You turned my best friend, my brother, into a man that tried to rape my girlfriend!"

Alexa's eyes widened as she listens to Adam's rant, taking in all of the information as he gives it. But it doesn't settle in her brain because this can't be right. She knows that Jay has been upset since their breakup, hell she saw it firsthand last night, but what Adam's saying just doesn't make sense. Jay is a good guy. He makes mistakes sometimes, sure, but rape? Jay wouldn't rape anyone, especially not Callie. She and Adam are his best friends.

"You're lying," she whispers, unable to say anything other than the pathetically small denial. It sounds desperate and weak, even to her ears, but she has to say it. Adam has lied many times before, so it wouldn't be unheard of. Besides, she knows Jay, he wouldn't- no, he couldn't have done that. "You're lying. That's what you do. You lie to make yourself look better and so others will look worse. You're just…you're lying."

Adam isn't sorry for telling her, not even in the harsh way he did. He believes every word he told her. She's the bitch who ruined his best friend and turned him into a pathetic asshole. So he's not sorry for telling her exactly what happened, even if he wasn't intending to tell her to begin with. He is sorry that Callie is walking in the door, however, because Alexa is still calling him a liar and rocking back and forth in a way that can only be described as childish and innocent. –So much for Cece not thinking about this at all today- he thinks, allowing his original plans to fly out the window with the somber look on his girlfriend's face.

"Adam?" Callie asks, while gesturing towards the blubbering mess of Alexa in the middle of their hotel room floor.

"She asked," he replies defiantly, refusing to be sorry about this, even for the love of his life. "She deserved to know."

"Callie! You're here, that means you can tell me the truth," Alexa says to her friend. "What really happened with Jay and Adam last night?"

Callie sighs heavily, looking over at the petite, innocent, young woman. The blonde looks at her imploringly, with a look of such hope that it almost breaks Callie's heart to tell her the truth. But at least she knows her version will be less explicit than Adam's.

"We were all supposed to go out last night with the rest of the RAW crew. Adam was called away for some storyline corrections, so we went on to the night club, saying we'd all meet up in the dining area in a couple of hours. Jay offered to buy a drink for me because he's been feeling kind of low since you two…well, you know. Everything was going fine until Mike graced us with his presence. He'd already had a few drinks and started bragging about how wonderful you are and how you guys will probably last forever because he's the only one awesome enough to have you on his arm. Jay didn't take that very well and ended up buying a few drinks for the two of us. We were reminiscing over the good times we had with each other years ago and the drinks just kept on coming. We realized that it was past the time to meet up with Adam, so we headed down the hallway from the bar area to the restaurant. It was pretty dark because a couple of the lights were out and we were the only people in the hall. Well, all of a sudden Jay grabbed me shoulder and pulled me against him, kissing me for all he was worth. At first, I was stuck in some strange in-between time when we were still together, so I kissed back. Then I realized that we broke up two years ago, and I'm in love with Adam. So I pushed him off of me and told him that this wasn't right, he was just trying to use me to get over you. He tried grabbing me again, telling me that I'm gorgeous and other, more lewd, things. I pushed him off again and he ripped my shirt as he backed away. Then, my hero, my black knight, strode in and saved me. He knocked some sense into Jason and just kept hitting him until finally, he decided to bring me back here."

Silence erupts amongst the three of them for a few minutes, as Adam and Callie watch a struggle occur behind Alexa's eyes. After a while, the little blonde finally speaks.

"So…it's true," her voice is pathetic and weak once again. It sounds scratchy and dry, like she's been in a desert for a few hours. "He tried to…"

She still can't say what they are claiming, not in connection with Jason. Just as Adam is Callie's black knight, so Jay used to be Alexa's Lancelot. What they are saying still doesn't make sense to her and she feels bile rising up in her throat. So she jumps up, running at the door as fast as she can. She has to get out of the place.

"No, no, Lex," Callie's voice stops her momentarily. "I wouldn't call it rape. He was just trying to seduce me; he was trying to do things that he knew used to work with me. But not rape."

The words pierce her consciousness but it isn't enough to keep the bile from rising, or enough to stop her from running away. Something that had to be a lie, by every bit of knowledge she has in her, was just proven to be the truth. She can only go one place when this kind of ridiculous crisis occurs, even if it makes no logical sense to go there right now. She has to. She has to find a way to make this make sense to her and he is the one who helps her figure things out; he always has been.

Suddenly, she's at his door, even though she doesn't remember taking the stairs at all. Her mind is trying to shut down on her, trying to block out the horrible ideas swirling about there. She refuses to let it because this is a truth that she must face. Alexa knocks before she can change her mind and wipes her eyes. Until she sees the wetness on her fingers, she doesn't even realize she is crying. The young woman doesn't want her tears to affect him, so she attempts to scrape them off before he opens the door.

It doesn't work, though. He's seen her enough times to know when she has been crying. She cannot rid herself of the irritated, red eyes, or of the ugly, drops still clinging to her nose by the time he opens the door. But as soon as the door opens, Jason standing there with concern in his eyes over her condition (even though he's in much worse shape than she is, still bruised and sore from his fight with Adam just a few hours ago), she no longer cares to cover her feelings. He envelops her in a comforting hug, ignoring all of his problems to help her instead. She knows that no matter what happens to them, she'll always go to him when life becomes hard. Jason Reso is the only one who can make her feel safe and calm, even if he's the one who caused her problem to begin with.

That is why she ran to him today. She turned to him in seek of some peace from a hard truth that she couldn't handle alone. A simple hug from him and Alexa found that peace she sought, along with a feeling of safety and caring that she couldn't receive from anyone else.